Aja viide. Aja lugu.

The goldenthroats are a small group of hummingbirds in the genus Polytmus.

The genus Polytmus was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the type species as Polytmus guainumbi thaumantias, a subspecies of the white-tailed goldenthroat.^[1]^[2] The name of the genus is from the Ancient Greek πολυτιμος polutimos "very costly", "valuable".^[3]

The genus contains three species:^[4]

Genus **Polytmus** – Brisson, 1760 – three species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
White-tailed goldenthroat	Polytmus guainumbi (Pallas, 1764) Three subspecies 'P. g. guainumbi P. g. andinus P. g. thaumantias	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Tepui goldenthroat	Polytmus milleri (Chapman, 1929)	Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Green-tailed goldenthroat	Polytmus theresiae (Da Silva Maia, 1843) Two subspecies P. t. theresiae P. t. leucorrhous	Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, and possibly Ecuador	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

References

^ Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés (in French and Latin). Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. Vol. 1, p. 40, Vol. 3, p. 667.
^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 57.
^ Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Hummingbirds". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 April 2019.